Comments on: If only he’d been Justice Nightjack…

By: Fellow Traveller

Fellow Traveller — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:04:10 +0000

I don’t think the two situations resemble one another all that closely. In the Nightjack case, a newspaper had learned the identity of the anonymous person and wanted to reveal it; Nightjack attempted to force the paper by means of a court injunction to not do so. Whereas, with the judges, the Guardian has sought to use the law to force the government to disclose their identities. You’ve got two different questions:

i) Can Bob force Bill to keep his real identity secret should Bill learn it (when Bill has made no prior undertaking to do so)?

ii) Can Bill force Bob (or a trusted third party) to reveal his identity when he wants to keep it secret?

By: Unity

Unity — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:56:23 +0000

So who’s going to set up the sack Justice Eady petition on the Number 10 website?

Paul Dacre?

By: James D

James D — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:09:17 +0000

So who’s going to set up the sack Justice Eady petition on the Number 10 website?

By: Matt Wardman

Matt Wardman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:37:47 +0000

>he was a senior copper who was writing about cases

Detective Constable !

But I think that in the end the Police have so far been sensible (unlike the Times). They had to act, and this is written warning territory. That is progress from the sacking of Christopher Glamorganshire.

By: Shatterface

Shatterface — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:35:29 +0000

if Nightjack had been briefing the press in secret, perhaps about the ‘suspicious behaviour’ of someone killed by other police officers, you can bet we’d have never heard his real name.

By: Will Rhodes

Will Rhodes — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:23:57 +0000

Never reading nightjack’s blog I dunno if it was lagit to publish his name or not – but from what I read here he was a senior copper who was writing about cases, is it right for him to do that?

What I do know is that the UK needs one hell of a shake up. Looking in from outside you can see where people get the idea that the place is still medieval.

The rulers rule with what looks like an iron fist, and parliament is nothing more than a sounding board for the monarchy, or is the sovereign itself. No one, and I do mean no one can see why MPs, judges, Lord’s, police etc can get away with what they do. Some even have said “Will our country really get as bad as the UK”.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:50:41 +0000

It seems to me that the public interest in details of members of judiciary would more, than those of a blogger-by-night. But why would it be necessary? Those who wrote in disgust (Iain Dale, Hopi Sen, Old Holbron, myself) at the decision by Justice Eady and Patrick Foster at the Times did so in support of anonymity. Unless strictly necessary – like it was a matter of life and death – anonymity should be bestowed upon all who have done nothing to deserve the contrary.

By: Liberal Conspiracy

Liberal Conspiracy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:54:41 +0000

New post: If only he’d been Justice Nightjack… http://bit.ly/1513n5